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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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PHYSICIAN'S REPORT.
MARYLAND PENITENTIARY,)
Noember 30, 1865)
Gentlemen of the Board of Directors:
I herewith present you my report of the condition of health
of the prisoners confined in the Maryland Penitentiary, and
of the mortality which has occurred among them during the
past year.
Three thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven applica-
tions were made for medical relief in the male department.
One hundred and eighty-one of the parties applying were
excused from duty for a limited period. Their cases not be-
ing of such a character as to render their admission to the
hospital necessary, while, at the same time, a short exemp-
tion from daily duty was deemed, advisable. Many of these
parties had received slight wounds, through awkwardness or
carelessness in the handling of their instruments of labor,
and, though suffering little therefrom, were incapacitated,
for the time, for performing the especial duties to which they
had been assigned. The time lost, as above stated amounted
to seven hundred and nineteen days.
One hundred and six patients were under medical treat-
ment in the hospital: of whom, five died and the remainder
were discharged therefrom, either cured or greatly relieved.
The deaths were as follows:
Joseph Slang, white, aged 55 years, died Dec. 31, 1864, of
Chronic Diarrhoea.
Henry Benson, colored, aged 33 years, died January 24,
1865, of Spinal Meningitis.
Isaac Young, colored, aged 74 years, died March 4, 1865,
of old age.
Thomas Wall, white, aged 67 years, died Oct. 4, 1865, of
Ascites.
William Collins, white, aged 54 years, died Oct. 13, 1865,
of softening of the brain.
The unprecedentedly large number of female prisoners
now confined in the Penitentiary has compelled the Warden,
in violation of law, to place forty-eight adults and four chil-

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